Location: Work from home, South Korea
Hourly Rate: $8.50 USD per hour
Contract: 20 hours per week, 6 months fixed term
Hiring Manager: Seoyoung Kim Recruiter: Frazer Morton
Please submit all cover letters and resumes in English
You’ll be helping to build a new team of passionate professionals working flexibly to write and edit content for Twinkl’s emerging South Korean market. This team will create a wide range of resources for use in Early Years, Kindergarten, Lower and Upper Elementary school lessons. This will include PowerPoints, display materials, activity sheets, assessments and learning activities. For this role, the majority of your time will be spent creating content for any age from Early Years to Elementary School, depending on your experience.
Your weekly activity could include:
- Meeting with other Twinkl writers and editors or the South Korea Country Manager to discuss new ideas;
- Writing and editing content for the South Korean market;
- Developing new product ideas with the South Korea Country Manager.
South Korea is a rapidly growing market for Twinkl. You will have the creative freedom to shape the content we offer to our customers. Our ideal candidate will be going further than writing and editing content by suggesting new product ideas, identifying needs in the South Korean teaching and parent communities, sharing their experiences and expertise with others. We are planning to expand our market to Korean public schools and it is an exciting time for this market. The successful candidate will be vital in ensuring that these ambitious plans for South Korea become a reality. This is a work-from-home, flexible position, and hours can be agreed upon between you and your line manager to fit around your current commitments.
In this role, you will learn:
- How to create new teacher contents for our brand new South Korean team, from ideation stage to publication on the site;
- Remote collaboration, working closely with team members across this market;
- How to develop greater commercial awareness so we can understand the needs of those we want to help.
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- Be a fantastic communicator who thrives when working in a close-knit team;
- Be focused on collaboration, using feedback to make our resources the best they can be;
- Have detailed knowledge of the Early Years, Kindergarten, and/or Elementary School curriculum of South Korea;
- Have an excellent understanding of the needs of teachers and parents in Nursery, Kindergarten and Elementary to support them in delivering learning within the classroom or at home;
- Being able to search the contents in Korean that will be suitable for Korean public schools that cover subjects such as Korean, English, Maths, History, Geography, Science, Music, Art, and PE;
- Being able to translate the text in both Korean and English in a very natural way.
We’re are especially interested in anyone who also meets one, or a combination of the following:
- Qualifications: Degree in education and/or teacher qualification;
- Experience: Minimum of 3 years of Early years, Kindergarten, and/or Elementary School teaching experience in South Korea, with experience in making teaching materials.
Benefits
In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities.
Here’s a couple of the things that make Twinkl a great place to be:
- A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before process.
- Flexible working with opportunities to work from home.
- Twinkl are proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity within all of our teams and are committed to continuing to build an inclusive workplace for all. If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application/selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements please include this at the foot of your covering letter. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process.
- Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - Our ever-evolving program includes: Monthly progression reviews, Twinkl’s Management Scheme, commercial awareness training, leadership coaching quads, career chats and mentoring.
- Collaboration across continents! You’ll plug into a global team working to help improve the lives of educators around the world.
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